Bring your booktalks to life with a book trailer!!! Using Animoto is fun and creative! Check out this example:




Sick of wasting paper when asking students to create posters for their projects? Consider glogster.com. Students can be very creative when creating posters based on their research! They can even record their voice to explain what parts are all about! Take a look at this example:








For an example of using text to create something exciting, make a word cloud. The larger the word, the stronger it is in the text. Meaning, that words was used more times throughout the text being used to covey the word cloud.



Created at tagul.com


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Comic Strip Generator created by Mrs. Guidara, entitled: Finding a Just Right Book! This was using stripgenerator.com


Shelfari, by Mrs. Guidara. See what books I have read and plan to read for some suggestions!


Take a look at this story:
http://storybird.com/books/the-nartians-look-for-food/
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